Battery

Sleeps 5

Room Layout

Location

Battery cottage is located on Battery Square, and is enetered
via a shared stairway from the square. Entrance overlooks the
Prisoner Shop and Caffi Sgwar. It has views from the back of the
cottage overlooking the residents private lawn, and down to the
Hotel and quayside. There is a balcony on the first floor sharing
the view of the Estuary. Parking for Battery Cottage is at
Salutation Sqaure

History

Battery (1927, listed Grade II 1971) was designed as "Block C"
on a plan dated March 21st 1927. It is of eighteenth century
Kentish character with three storeys, the ground floor stuccoed
with one lunette window, above weatherboarded with wide eaves. It
featured in an article on Portmeirion by E. Maxwell Fry in the
Architects' Journal for June 20, 1928. Having mentioned the Watch
House he described the Battery was "a severer house painted all in
white [that] looked calmly out over the waters, as though oblivious
to the tower now rising from its tangle of scaffold poles to
eclipse the authority of the first born." The other cottages
completed by this date were Angel and Neptune down on the village
green. Clough justified the name Battery by having a couple of
little cannons placed to guard its battlemented terrace. These were
from Belan Fort, built on the Menai Straits to repel Napoleon's
expected invasion. Chart Room, which is now Mermaid Spa, on the
ground floor directly below the Battery, was once a garage.